"Yaw, yaw, I've heard the Six Shooter too. Had to judge pies at the town fair too. Yaw, yaw."

Gunsmoke Radio shows with Bill Conrad are excellent indeed. Parley Baer
as Chester. Bill Conrad wasn't tall enough and a little rotund to make the TV show, which went to 6' 7" James Arness. We know William Conrad as Cannon on TV. He was a CBS regular and appears in all kinds of radio shows, not always credited. Tex Ritter recorded the full lyrical theme song in 1955 on Capitol records. It can be found on the web.

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I grew up watching the television series with James Arness, but I suspect that having heard the radio series it would be difficult for me to go back to the video version.

A bit like the British TV series that adapts Alan Hunter's Inspector Gently novels -- the character is so different on TV to the books that I can't watch the TV show._________________tuned in from down under